Poor Alf Landon...

[elperromagico]

"I Ran For President And All I Got Were These Lousy Eight Electoral Votes"
Up until 1936, there was a saying: "As goes Maine, so goes the Nation."

After 1936, there was a new saying: "As goes Maine, so goes... Vermont."

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

1. He didn't even win his own state of KANSAS!!

That's unbelievable!

[elperromagico]

3. Nope. Lost it 54-46.

Back in the day when the majority of Kansans voted in their own best interests...

[coloradodem2005]

2. Rock on FDR!!!!!

[SaveElmer]

4. I think Landon was Nancy Kassebaum's father

If I'm not mistaken.

[JohnKleeb]

5. He was

[elperromagico]

6. Still is, probably, despite the notable defect

of being dead.

[JohnKleeb]

7. Yeah my bad

He lived a long time that said, I was alive for a little while when he was alive.

[elperromagico]

8. Lived for a long time with the knowledge

that he'd had his ass handed to him by Franklin Roosevelt. :D

[JohnKleeb]

9. 51 years man

I wonder what he thought of Reagan.

[elperromagico]

10. I don't know enough about Landon to tell you.

By all indications, he was a moderate.

[JohnKleeb]

11. Yeah I wonder if he still thought that FDR was fascist tho

Dewey and Willke were moderate too. Which is why top GOP brass wanted to nominate someone like Robert Taft in 1952 because they wanted a real republican.

[elperromagico]

12. And instead nominated the moderate Eisenhower,

the last good Republican president.

[JohnKleeb]

13. Right, Taft died though

I wonder what happens if he lives. That also marked the beginning of a more internationlist instead of isolationist republican party.

[elperromagico]

14. Taft never had a chance against the war hero Ike.

[JohnKleeb]

15. The GOP establishment I read loved Taft though

It was republican activists, not party leadership who got Ike to run.

[elperromagico]

16. But the people loved Ike,

and for once the people won out over the party leadership.

[JohnKleeb]

17. Right thats why Ike won reelection yet the GOP lost seats

The McCarthy's and Jenner's werent as popular. Jenner was the senator from Indiana who called George Marshall a traitor or something like that.

[CubsFan1982]

18. I was 5 when he died.

I remember hearing about it on the news that he'd died at the age of 100. I remember being amazed that people could live that long!

[JohnKleeb]

19. yeah its amazing